core.intrinsics

[Patrick Schluter via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 14 October 2016 at 04:44:46 UTC, Patrick Schluter 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 13 October 2016 at 23:15:00 UTC, David Gileadi 
> wrote:
>> On 10/13/16 12:52 PM, Stefan Koch wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 13 October 2016 at 19:49:42 UTC, Johan Engelen 
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Thursday, 13 October 2016 at 19:35:08 UTC, Stefan Koch 
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Please share your thoughts and tell me what other intrinsic 
>>>>> functions
>>>>> could/should be added.
>>>>
>>>> I think the name should be different from "intrinsics", so 
>>>> that it can
>>>> also contain functions like "likely-functionptr" / 
>>>> "likely-class"
>>>> optimization functions (e.g. the is_likely template from the 
>>>> other
>>>> thread).
>>>>
>>>> -Johan
>>>
>>> What name would you suggest then ?
>>
>> As an ignorant bystander I like core.intrinsics, but if not 
>> then perhaps core.compilerhints or something to that effect?
>
> core.hints
>
> short and simple

but core.intrinsics would have the advantage that it can be used 
to put other intrinsics that are not specifically compiler hints 
(like __builtin___clear_cache from gcc for example).